THE HAWTHORNS. 



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length ; it is coral-red, and ripens in September. The 



tree grows from 10 to 20 feet high, and has long 



spreading branches. It may be found in moist woods 



or in rich ground from southern Virginia southward 



to Florida, and westward to Arkansas and Texas. 



., The white 



White or 



Soarlet-fruited thorn, some- 

 Thorn - times called 

 scarlet -fruit- 

 ed thorn, is 

 a small tree 



Cratag us 

 coccinea. 



White Thorn. 



(often a shrub), scarcely over 25 feet high, which may 

 be found in woods or on the borders of fields through- 

 out the North ; it is rather rare southward, although 



